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From a military point of view, the huge advantage of floppy disks is that they're dumb storage. The modern replacements such as USB storage or SD cards are micr
by pdw 11y ago
From a military point of view, the huge advantage of floppy disks is that they're dumb storage. The modern replacements such as USB storage or SD cards are microprocessor-based systems. How are you going to verify that the SD cards you're buying don't have malicious firmware?
- amorphid 11y agoYou most definitely don't want infected USB drives in your nuclear facility! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
- Dylan16807 11y agoThat's a different issue. That's a file that makes certain systems misbehave. The drives are dumb storage. When your storage device itself is smart and compromised, you can't even verify what its contents are. Things get much worse.
- paulryanrogers 11y agoI imagine BadUSB would fall into that latter category
- usrusr 11y agoAdding to that, 8 inch floppies have a certain quality to them that no younger medium has ever recreated: try hiding one on your body, try sneaking in an illicit reader to make "personal backups"... Security through unwieldyness goes a long way, when your biggest threats are of the social kind.